Speakers Bureau

ecomaine’s speakers bureau (PDF 310KB) is available to groups on weekdays and weeknights all year long. You may make arrangements to hold your meeting right at ecomaine’s Portland office or you may prefer to invite our speaker to visit your site. In either case, there is no cost for use of our space or for the speaker.

Once you have selected a topic of interest, please contact the speaker directly through his/her e-mail address or by phone at 207-773-1738 (weekdays). At that time, you can discuss dates, time, audience, and any items of particular interest to your group. Our speakers will do their best to accommodate you.

At Right:
Leo Maheu, ecomaine's Environmental
Educator, worked with the East End Community
School (Portland) Green Team to help them
develop a successful recycling program.
Contact Leo Maheu at maheu@ecomaine.org

 

ecomaine is happy to offer group and individual tours of any of our three facilities

• Waste-to-Energy Plant
  (Please note: to tour our waste to energy plant you must be age 12 or older and be, at least,in the 7th grade.)
• Recycling Center
• Landfill / Ashfill

There is no cost to tour our facilities or to schedule a presentation. Click here for detailed information, then call 207-773-1738 to make arrangements.

We are also pleased to make presentations at elementary schools. We put specific focus on what happens to trash and the importance of recycling, however our presentation can be tailored to address individual classroom goals about waste management and a variety of related topics.

Adult- level presentations are also available.

 

Educational Activities & Resources

$10,000 in School Recycling Grants from ecomaine
Details at our May 29th meeting for school administrators and teachers;
see flyer

For Teachers & Students:

• EPA: Solid Waste Activities (grades 9-12)
• EPA: Educational Materials
• Recycling Maze (PDF 427KB)
• Earth Maze (PDF 565KB)
• Recycling Maze II (PDF 406KB)
• Secret Coded Message (PDF 537KB)
• Recycling Word Search (PDF 498KB)
• Take Home Recycling Kit Lesson Plan (PDF 68KB)
• Recycling is for the Birds Lesson Plan (PDF 36KB)
  

General Audience

• "A Brief History of Trash in the USA" By Brigit McCallum, member of the Waterboro Transfer Station and Recycling Committee (PDF 29KB)

• "The Science Behind Your Landfill" ecomaine (2.20 MB)

• EPA: Recycling (website link)

Research & Scientific Review

• ecomaine Organics Recycling Feasibility Study (preliminary report, 6/13/13) 2.92 MB
• 2011 Maine Residential Waste Characterization Study (University of Maine, April 2012) 464 KB
• An Integrated Waste Management System (ASME/NAWTEC, April 2012)
  326 KB
• Waste-to-Energy Biogenic Carbon Dioxide Reductions and USEPA's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Mandate - What Does the Future Hold? (ASME/NAWTEC, April 2012) 755 KB
• Statewide Economic Contribution of Maine's Waste-to-Energy Sector (October 2011) 770 MB
• Case History: Proactive Maintenance and Upgrades (Neundorfer, Inc., 2011)
  254 KB
• Industrial Ecology: Scenarios for an Adaptable Future (Yale, 2010) 10.75 MB
• A Sustainability Comparison of Two Cities' Waste Streams (Harvard, 2010) 5.56 MB
• Sustainability Strategy for Biddeford, Maine's Waste Management (Harvard, 2010) 891 KB
• Recycling and Waste-To-Energy: Are They Compatible? (Governmental Advisory Associates, Inc., 2009) 175 KB
• Industrial Ecology: The Humanistic side of Eco-Industrial Parks (Regional Studies Journal, 2008) 2.13 MB
  

 

To gather information for research or scientific review, please complete an Interview Contract and mail to:

ecomaine Research Request
64 Blueberry Road
Portland, ME 04102

 

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